It seems like there’s a deep idea about (...) buried in there, but it’s obscured by a hodgepodge of thesis-antithesis and vague self-reference.
This is a standard technique to appear deeper than one is. By never saying what exactly your idea was, no one can find a mistake there. If people agree with you, they will find an interpretation that makes sense for them. (If the interpretation is good, you can take credit. If the interpretation is wrong, you can blame the interpreter for the lack of nuance.) If people disagree with you, they cannot quote you, so you can accuse them of attacking a strawman.
Or it simply buys you time and outsources research. You can play with the idea, observe what is popular and what is not, gradually converge on something, and pretend that this is what you meant since the beginning. (Note: there is nothing wrong with throwing a few random ideas at wall and seeing what sticks, as long as you admit that this is what you are in fact doing.)
There is also nothing wrong with feeling out an idea, trying to figure out which parts of it look OK and which parts don’t, checking how it fits with other ideas and which corners catch, etc. -- lack of precision is bad at the end of the process but is highly desirable at the beginning (“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” :-D)
This is a standard technique to appear deeper than one is. By never saying what exactly your idea was, no one can find a mistake there. If people agree with you, they will find an interpretation that makes sense for them. (If the interpretation is good, you can take credit. If the interpretation is wrong, you can blame the interpreter for the lack of nuance.) If people disagree with you, they cannot quote you, so you can accuse them of attacking a strawman.
Or it simply buys you time and outsources research. You can play with the idea, observe what is popular and what is not, gradually converge on something, and pretend that this is what you meant since the beginning. (Note: there is nothing wrong with throwing a few random ideas at wall and seeing what sticks, as long as you admit that this is what you are in fact doing.)
There is also nothing wrong with feeling out an idea, trying to figure out which parts of it look OK and which parts don’t, checking how it fits with other ideas and which corners catch, etc. -- lack of precision is bad at the end of the process but is highly desirable at the beginning (“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” :-D)